Mississippi · FIPS 28079
Leake ZIP codes — Leake County, Mississippi
Quick answer
Leake County is home to 21,288 residents with a median household income of $48,418 and a median home value of $114,600. 75.9% of households own their home and 19.9% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Leake ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Leake County, Mississippi, listed in full below.
- Population
- 21,288Leake County residents
- Median household income
- $48,418Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $114,600Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $757Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 40 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 75.9%Owner-occupied households
Leake County, MS in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Leake County is a mid-size town in Mississippi, with 21,288 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 40 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in Leake County earn a median of $48,418 a year, 38.4% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 19.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.
The typical owner-occupied home in Leake County is valued at $114,600, 62.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $757 a month, 46.2% below the national figure, or roughly $9,084 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 75.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.
ZIP codes in Leake County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Leake County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Mississippi
Largest Census places in Mississippi by population.
- Jackson city 149,827
- Gulfport city 72,533
- Southaven city 55,531
- Biloxi city 49,011
- Hattiesburg city 48,507
- Olive Branch city 46,538
- Tupelo city 37,825
- Meridian city 34,466
- Greenville city 28,833
- Madison city 27,775
- Pearl city 27,458
- Clinton city 27,418
Nearby counties
Other counties in Mississippi.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Leake County?
- Leake County has 21,288 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Leake County?
- Median household income in Leake County is $48,418 a year, 38.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Leake County?
- Median gross rent is $757 a month and the median home value is $114,600, so rent absorbs about 18.8% of median household income.
- Is Leake County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Leake County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 18.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Leake County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.